Re: [Boost-build] Building Boost on OSX

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Building Boost on OSX
From: Bioxydyn Dev (bioxydyn.dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-20 02:34:57

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> AMDG
>
> On 08/19/2013 08:19 AM, Bioxydyn Dev wrote:
> > I'm trying to build boost 1.54 on OSX 10.8.4. I'm a newbie at building on
> > OSX and also at building custom boost binaries.
> >
> > I followed the instructions at
> >
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.htmlup
> > to and including section 4. I then installed boost build as described
> > in
> > section 5.2.1.
> >
> > To keep things simple I thought I'd just build the thread library for now
> > as follows:
> > /usr/local/bin/boost-build/bin/b2 install
> > --prefix=~/development/cots/boost/ --build-dir=/tmp/build-boost stage
> > --with-thread toolset=gcc-4.5 variant=debug --layout=versioned
> > --build-type=complete -q
> >
>
> use toolset=darwin, not toolset=gcc.
>

Please explain. Why would I do that when I've installed gcc separately and
not using what came installed on the machine?

regards

Joe.